Kehinde Wiley Quotes

There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Father
  • Alone
  • Mom

• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Book
  • Health
  • Teacher

• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Rose

• I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Play
  • Exciting
  • Broadway

• The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Free
  • Question
  • Ideas

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Mean

• I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Try
  • Take Advantage

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • You
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Best
  • Year
  • Artists

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Up
  • Why
  • True

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• 'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Character
  • Play
  • Myself

• I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will recruit new teachers and make new investments in rural schools, we'll connect all of America to 21st century technology and telecommunications.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • America
  • Technology

• I would say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my door are women who have had lots of plastic surgery that are married to rich men - sort of a trophy wife.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

  

  Jenna Fischer
  • Time
  • Future
  • Dream

• I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Future
  • Windows 8
  • Surface computer

• There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Work
  • Art
  • Future